underprize
underprize verb: to undervalue; to underestimate.
Verb
underprize (third-person singular simple present underprizes, present participle underprizing, simple past and past participle underprized)
- To undervalue; to underestimate.
- […] Yet look, how far / The substance of my praise doth wrong this shadow / In underprizing it, so far this shadow / Doth limp behind the substance.c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- […] euery man ouer-ualuing his owne worth, would be a Commander: euery man vnder prizing anothers value, denied to be commanded.1625, “English Plantations, Discoveries, Acts, and Occurrents, in Virginia and Summer Ilands since the Yeere 1606 till 1624”, in Samuel Purchas, editor, Purchas His Pilgrimes, Part 4 in Five Bookes...
underprize meaning in Bengali
underprize in Bengali
- অবমূল্যায়ন করা, কম মূল্যায়ন করা
Examples of underprize in a sentence
- Teach me to underprize this life, and I / Shall finde my loſſe the eaſier, vvhen I dye; […]1631, Fra[ncis] Quarles, “Sect[ion] 23. Meditat[ion] 23.”, in The Historie of Samson, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriott, […]...
- No: it would never do to underprize this proof of good will or to read in Liane’s warning any spirit but one of the most earnest anxiety.1923, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter 14, in The Lone Wolf Returns, New York: Grosset & Dunlap:
- I underprized your far-out, blathering genius.1996, Seamus Heaney, “An Invocation”, in The Spirit Level, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 32:
Forms of underprize
| third-person singular present | underprizes |
|---|---|
| present participle | underprizing |
| past participle | underprized |
| past | underprized |
Origin of underprize
From under- + prize.
Questions about underprize
- What does underprize mean?
- Underprize means to undervalue; to underestimate.
- What is underprize in Bengali?
- Underprize in Bengali is অবমূল্যায়ন করা, কম মূল্যায়ন করা. See Underprize meaning in Bengali.
- How do you use underprize in a sentence?
- Teach me to underprize this life, and I / Shall finde my loſſe the eaſier, vvhen I dye; […]
- What part of speech is underprize?
- Underprize is a verb.
- What is the past tense of underprize?
- The past tense of underprize is underprized.
Words near underprize in the dictionary
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